Its been another great week in Fayette!
We had a really great day yesterday! We had 30 people at church!!!! It felt really full. We even had to change rooms for Priesthood to fit everyone. On top of that it was in the high 50's (which luckily is melting all the snow). We also were able to talk with a potential investigator for an hour on his door step and he said that he would bring his kids to church next week! On top of that we drove into Columbia last night to have dinner with the zone leaders at the Tia's. It was really fun to be back there and be with that family again.
We also had a zone meeting. It was really good to be amongst other Elders again. That is one thing I miss about being a ZL, there isn't much interaction among the other Elders. We talked a lot about gratitude and our reasons for being on a mission and comparing that to why God wants us on missions. It was a nice meeting (especially because I could sit back and enjoy it).
Other than that, it was a fairly slow week. Not too much progress with our other investigators. However, one of them is down to only two cigarettes a day. So that was exciting.
Dad-sounds like ward conference was a good one. Pride is something I think we can all work on.
Mom-I'm sure i can take up all the time for my talk when I get home...don't worry, I've had some practice on it since the last time.
Anyway have a good week.
Love,
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Blizzard and More......
Its been another great week in Fayette!
So last week I was skeptical about getting snow. Well...we definitely got some. We had a blizzard on Tuesday (It was kinda fun not being able to see anything) that dropped about two feet of snow. And on top of that it was below zero for a bit. After everything settled down though, we went out and made a snow cave out of the huge pile of snow that came from the driveways. It was a lot of fun and a new expericne for Elder McKinney, being from Arizona. We were only able to work three days this week, but it was fun. I got a lot of reading in. Not only am I working on the Book of Mormon again, I also started reading the Old Testament again. I've learned alot from it and it helps the Book of Mormon make a ton more sense. I'm in the book of Judges now. I'm planning on finishing both the OT and the BoM before I get home.
Transfers were this last week. We are both staying though. We have a lot of great potentials coming up that we are really excited for along with the existing investigators that we have.
Yesterday we had two nonmembers at church. Dilbert was one, our branch mission leader went and picked him up, and the other was a friend of one of the members. Hopefully we'll be able to start teaching her. We didn't get a chance to talk with her much because we had to leave pretty quick after church.
Dad-do you know what ward your co-workers fiance family is in? .
Mom-Am I going to recognize the house when I get back? haha, it sounds like ya'll have changed just about everything. Well your time is running out for any more big changes.
Anyway,
Love you lots.
Elder Egan
So last week I was skeptical about getting snow. Well...we definitely got some. We had a blizzard on Tuesday (It was kinda fun not being able to see anything) that dropped about two feet of snow. And on top of that it was below zero for a bit. After everything settled down though, we went out and made a snow cave out of the huge pile of snow that came from the driveways. It was a lot of fun and a new expericne for Elder McKinney, being from Arizona. We were only able to work three days this week, but it was fun. I got a lot of reading in. Not only am I working on the Book of Mormon again, I also started reading the Old Testament again. I've learned alot from it and it helps the Book of Mormon make a ton more sense. I'm in the book of Judges now. I'm planning on finishing both the OT and the BoM before I get home.
Transfers were this last week. We are both staying though. We have a lot of great potentials coming up that we are really excited for along with the existing investigators that we have.
Yesterday we had two nonmembers at church. Dilbert was one, our branch mission leader went and picked him up, and the other was a friend of one of the members. Hopefully we'll be able to start teaching her. We didn't get a chance to talk with her much because we had to leave pretty quick after church.
Dad-do you know what ward your co-workers fiance family is in? .
Mom-Am I going to recognize the house when I get back? haha, it sounds like ya'll have changed just about everything. Well your time is running out for any more big changes.
Anyway,
Love you lots.
Elder Egan
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
I'll Believe it When I See It!
Its been another great week in Fayette!!
We got our dinner calendar back after church yesterday and to our surprise it actually had stuff on it! If I remember right we have two dinners a week! As you could probably assume, we're pretty excited.
Our investigators are doing really good. They made lots of progress this past week. We taught the Word of Wisdom to one of them. We were really worried about it, not sure how well it would be recieved, but it went really good. She said that she was willing to give up drinking, smoking, and coffee, but that she would have a hard time giving up tea. We continued to reasure her of the blessings that would come from it and she accepted! Then with Dilbert, we went over there and he had some questions about the Plan of Salvation, just making sure that he was understanding it. We answered them and then he told us that he wanted to be baptized! He still has a lot of overcome, but he has that goal now. No one was able to make it to church though. Things just happen to always come up on the Sabbath. I wonder if the devil gets paid overtime on the weekends, he must, because those are the times that he seems to be the busiest. Anyway, all is well with everyone.
My back is a little sore still, but much better.
We're expecting another really big storm tonight. They say its supposed to be the biggest in a couple of years. I'll believe it when I see it though (how's that faith for you, haha).
Mom- I don't remember that story from the Trek. Oh well. It was fun none the less. Josh (Arnett) is home already! That's crazy, everyone is home now. I don't think you'll need an interpreter, I do pretty good when speaking in large groups or teaching. It's all the other times I'd be worried about, haha. ( I told Jon if he keeps talking like he did last week "Warshington"....that we might need an interpeter when he comes home and speaks in sacrament)
Dad-At least Josh's talk was longer than my five min. one.
You don't fully appreciate something until you don't have it anymore. There are many times I think "Oh, we'll just go to the church building and do...." or "hey, lets get some people together to play basketball" then I remember that we don't have either, a full church building or people to play basketball.
I'll have to go back and look at Lehi's dream again. I'm in 2 Ne: 2 right now. I was thinking this morning about how without sin, we couldn't choose the Atonement. I was thinking how each work side by side. Without one, we can't have the other. It helps me appreicate my mistakes a little bit so that I can draw and use the Atonement more fully.
Anyway, I've got to get going but I hope you have another enjoyable week.
Love,
Elder Egan
We got our dinner calendar back after church yesterday and to our surprise it actually had stuff on it! If I remember right we have two dinners a week! As you could probably assume, we're pretty excited.
Our investigators are doing really good. They made lots of progress this past week. We taught the Word of Wisdom to one of them. We were really worried about it, not sure how well it would be recieved, but it went really good. She said that she was willing to give up drinking, smoking, and coffee, but that she would have a hard time giving up tea. We continued to reasure her of the blessings that would come from it and she accepted! Then with Dilbert, we went over there and he had some questions about the Plan of Salvation, just making sure that he was understanding it. We answered them and then he told us that he wanted to be baptized! He still has a lot of overcome, but he has that goal now. No one was able to make it to church though. Things just happen to always come up on the Sabbath. I wonder if the devil gets paid overtime on the weekends, he must, because those are the times that he seems to be the busiest. Anyway, all is well with everyone.
My back is a little sore still, but much better.
We're expecting another really big storm tonight. They say its supposed to be the biggest in a couple of years. I'll believe it when I see it though (how's that faith for you, haha).
Mom- I don't remember that story from the Trek. Oh well. It was fun none the less. Josh (Arnett) is home already! That's crazy, everyone is home now. I don't think you'll need an interpreter, I do pretty good when speaking in large groups or teaching. It's all the other times I'd be worried about, haha. ( I told Jon if he keeps talking like he did last week "Warshington"....that we might need an interpeter when he comes home and speaks in sacrament)
Dad-At least Josh's talk was longer than my five min. one.
You don't fully appreciate something until you don't have it anymore. There are many times I think "Oh, we'll just go to the church building and do...." or "hey, lets get some people together to play basketball" then I remember that we don't have either, a full church building or people to play basketball.
I'll have to go back and look at Lehi's dream again. I'm in 2 Ne: 2 right now. I was thinking this morning about how without sin, we couldn't choose the Atonement. I was thinking how each work side by side. Without one, we can't have the other. It helps me appreicate my mistakes a little bit so that I can draw and use the Atonement more fully.
Anyway, I've got to get going but I hope you have another enjoyable week.
Love,
Elder Egan
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